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He realized that the nascent open-source R community was a resource that could help him fill the gaps between what he was good at and what he needed help with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have an econometrics background, mostly statistics. When I first became aware of R it was mainly being used in the stats world. I didn\u2019t start experimenting with it in finance programming until around 2005, which was still the early days. At first, I could only work out certain parts of what I was looking for, but back then, it was easy to befriend people online and coordinate with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan\u2019s initial idea was to automate data manipulation, which, at the time, was a difficult challenge. He realized that if he published his modeling package as open source and invited others to refine and extend it, he could harness the expertise needed to build out the parts he would have struggled to build himself. His new packages quickly gained traction within the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe ended up building and sharing a whole suite of software.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this work was underway, Ryan and several other key members of the open source community met face-to-face at an R conference in Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt turned out a number of us lived in Chicago, so when we got back home we met and agreed that it didn\u2019t make sense to duplicate effort developing the same things. That led to really productive collaborations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An R conference in Switzerland sparked his interest in starting one closer to home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed Switzerland, but I thought it&#8217;d be nicer to walk to and from a conference rather than getting on a 10-hour flight every year,\u201d he jokes, \u201cthough if that conference still existed, I\u2019d probably still be going. 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